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Vámossy, Zoltán

 

(B. 15th December, 1868, Pest - D. 26th December, 1953, Leányfalu)

Dean: 1922/23 - 1923/24

He pursued his medical studies in Budapest where he got his degree on 5 December, 1891. First he was practising at the obstetrical clinic then at the department of internal medicine. On 1 February, 1893 he became first assistant lecturer at the Institute of Pharmacology led by Árpád Bókay. Having won a state scholarship he spent a whole year at the pharmacological institutes of the University of Freiburg and Strassburg in 1897. When he returned in April 1898 he habilitated in the field of pharmacological methodology at the Faculty of Medicine in Budapest. He pursued toxicological studies at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1903/04.

In 1908 he became honorary extraordinary, then in 1914 public extraordinary professor of toxicology. Due to the large amount of students from 1911 he held lectures simultaneously with his professor, Árpád Bókay. During World War I he organised and headed the observation centre in Losonc, then he became the director of the rehabilitation institutes for disabled.

Between 1917 and 1939 he was professor ordinarius of pharmacology; from 1920 he was director of the Institute of Pharmacology. He was the one who discovered the laxative effect of phenolphthalein. He carried out researches on the detoxicant effect of the liver and on opium-alkaloids. He worked out examination methods in forensic medicine.

In the beginning of his career was engaged in some works of fiction, then became involved in the edition of the famous Pallas Lexicon. Between 1923 and 1944 he was the editor of the Hungarian Medical Journal. He was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 5 May, 1920 till his exclusion on 23 April, 1948. In 1952 he acquired his PhD degree of medical sciences. His membership at the Academy was restored on 9 May, 1991. He fulfilled the position of the dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Budapest for two years.

(Major works: The behaviour of phosphor acidic esters in the body. In: Hungarian Medical Archive, 1898.; Toxins in everyday life. Bp. 1900.; On a new laxative drug. Bp. 1902.; On the liver’s toxin restraining ability. In: Hungarian Medical Archive, 1904.; On toxications, Bp. 1907.; On the blood examination from the angle of criminal law. Bp, 1907.; Pharmacology (with Géza Mansfeld and Béla Fenyvessy). Bp. 1908, 8th edition. 1932. On the capability of the liver in binding nucleid-alcaloids. In. Hungarian Medical Archive, 1910.; Studies on the lipotropy of basicus narcotics. In. Hungarian Medical Archive, 1913.; On the alkaloid content of henbane seed with respect to the henbane-infection of poppy (with Kovács Aladár). In: Hungarian Medical Archive, 1915.; IV. Pharmacopoeia (ed.). Bp. 1934.)